Nick Mangafas/ Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur

Die Wiener Kuchl [The Viennese Kitchen]

Nick Mangafas/ Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur

Die Wiener Kuchl [The Viennese Kitchen]

MAK/ Beate Lex

Die Wiener Kuchl [The Viennese Kitchen]

Nick Mangafas/ Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur

Die Wiener Kuchl [The Viennese Kitchen]

Nick Mangafas/ Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur

Die Wiener Kuchl [The Viennese Kitchen]

Participative Development of a DIY Kitchen for 200 Euros

In the context of the “Hunger for Art and Culture” program “Culture-Transfair,” designers, social workers, and educators worked
with homeless people. The cooperation led to the development of the DIY Wiener Kuchl.

2017

The Wiener Kuchl emerged from an inclusive project run by the MAK and the social services organization “wieder wohnen – wohn:mobil” (“settling
down again – live:mobile”). The collaboration was initiated by the “Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur” (“Hunger for Art and Culture”)
campaign, which is committed to making art and culture accessible to people living below the poverty line. Every year, in
the context of the Culture-Transfair program, Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur initiates five collaborations, each of which involves a cultural institution teaming
up with a social services organization.

The goal of wieder wohnen – wohn:mobil is to secure long-term accommodation for people who were previously homeless. A collaborative Culture-Transfair project was established between the MAK and wohn:mobil to support this goal, and also to bring DIY furniture to the
fore. The thesis being that homemade pieces of furniture strengthen one’s personal ties to an apartment.

As experts on their own lifeworld, the participants (members of the peer group “von uns für uns,” or “by us for us”) were
integrated into a four-month social design process with designers as well as experts from the MAK, from wohn:mobil, and the
Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus WUK (“Workshops and Culture House,” and more specifically, its “Workstations Association”). A
Design Thinking Workshop provided the basis for the design of two reasonably priced DIY kitchen units. The materials for the Wiener Kuchl can be acquired for around 200 euros at a DIY store and transported using a trolley on the subway.

Video instructions for self-assembly

The projects sustainability is ensured by a buddy system that wohn:mobil established, and which is intended to be financed
by a crowdfunding campaign. The idea is to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to build (themselves) a Wiener Kuchl.